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Version 1.3 now released

14/07/2008 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (3) | Permalink

It's been a busy time at Map My Tracks HQ. Hot on the heels of upgrading all our servers we are pleased to announce the release of Map My Tracks Mobile version 1.3. This release includes some great new features including location sharing, event tracking and for the first time it is compatible with Blackberrys.

Location sharing

Share you location You asked for it so now you can easily share your location with sites like Twitter and FriendFeed. Now when you are out and about you can use Map My Tracks to automatically make a tweet on Twitter showing your current location. It also let them follow your progress as you move around. You can also do the same with your FriendFeed account. To start sharing your location all you need to do is enable these services on your profile page here are Map My Tracks and make sure that you have v1.3 installed on your phone.

Once enabled, your location is shared each time a track is made or it can be manually shared using the ‘Where am I?’ feature on the phone.

Event tracking

We’re really excited about this. Event tracking is great for showing groups of people tracking all at once. It’s perfect for tracking any outdoor activity that involves groups of people or for competitions and makes it super easy for event organisers to present a bird’s eye view of all competitors in a race. We’ve already used this to bring live action from this year’s Map My Tracks Musto Skiff UK Nationals. More information about events is here.

Blackberry version

Map My Tracks on Blackberrys Blackberry users can now use Map My Tracks. For the first time v1.3 is compatible with Blackberrys with either an internal GPS receiver and using and external GPS receiver.

Get the latest version

The latest version can be install over the air by browsing to http://www.mapmytracks.com/install using your mobile phone.

If you don’t want to install the latest version over the air then download these files to your desktop to install via phone’s PC suite

Signed version - Try this set first
Download signed JAD
Download signed JAR

Unsigned version - Use this set if the signed version doesn’t work on your phone
Download unsigned JAD
Download unsigned JAR

Blackberry version
Download

To use these files you will need a Map My Tracks account. Sign up free and start tracking today.

We hope you like the new features. Please keep letting us what would make Map My Tracks even better.

Happy tracking from the team at Map My Tracks.

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Comments

Very interesting post! Go to http://www.jett-track.com or http://www.jett-track.com/blog for more info. about GPS tracking.

Comment by Jed on 16/07/2008

Is there a iPhone version coming soon? It could be interesting and make a little more buzz around.

Comment by loopion on 29/07/2008

Loopion, an iPhone version of Map My Tracks is definitely something that we are looking at. Keep an eye on our blog for key updates and announcements.

Comment by Nick on 29/07/2008

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